ATTITUDE 100 PERCENT
(jerkiness 110 percent)
I'm really not a fan of this kind of content, so let me ruin the magic for you.
Coincidence
or Not?
Wow! I never
knew ATTITUDE was so important! Then again, IRRITATE is also worth 100 points
on that same scale. Yup. 100 points. But why stop there? Give 110%, try out
JERKINESS.
Cool, right?
Here’s how I
found out:
Using
JavaScript, I made a function to convert a single word into its “char sum”
function charSum(rawWord) {
var word = rawWord.toUpperCase();
var tot = 0;
for(var i = 0; i < word.length; i++) {
tot += word.charCodeAt(i) - 'A'.charCodeAt() + 1;
};
return tot;
}
This is enough
to get the value for a single word. charSum(“attitude”) will return “100”.
Checking words one at a time would be very time consuming (you’re free to try
if you like). Better to let the CPU handle this gruntwork. I downloaded a list of all English words and formatted them with help from Excel.
Given a ‘words’
array, (about 14k words):
var
perfectWords = words.filter(x => charSum(x) == 100);
And, there
you have it. The words that give 100%:
acceptors
accumulate
acknowledge
acquitted
adulthood
Afghanistan
aggresses
alternated
amputees
analysis
anasthetic
angulates
annually
apropos
aquamarine
asbestos
beetroot
bolstered
borrowed
botanist
boycott
Brezhnev
centipedes
chimpanzee
clippys
cutlets
Darmstadt
deasserted
Dempster
desegregated
drizzle
Edmonton
ferryman
fluorine
forsaking
gauntlet
gauntly
generating
geographer
Goldwyn
grumpy
guardings
harmonics
healthily
inferring
ingrown
inoculate
irritate
Komatsu
languished
leaseholds
misdirect
Mongolian
nonjoined
obscenely
offhandedly
outflank
overscale
papists
piggybacks
pitying
Pollux
predeceases
rasters
reattaches
receptor
reengineer
refinery
remailers
renamings
repugns
resents
restocked
roomful
sarcophagic
sculpted
semitone
sharpens
spiciest
squint
starfish
stools
subloop
Sumerian
tangents
telegrams
telescience
Tromso
truism
Tunbridge
turkey
twisted
unchaining
unclever
undress
unprimed
unrelease
Vanuatu
violins
Vivienne
wattles
Wednesday
whenever
whirling
whiskey
whistled
wholely
wholesale
windfalls
wonderbra
woodcote
wriggles
writing
Yankovic
Yarrow
Wow! WHOLESALE ASBESTOS is worth 200 points! :D
